Coping with stage fright and motivation through flow experience while preparing for a public performance of violin students at elementary art schools
2022
Abstract
The article discusses the issues of stage fright and motivation through flow experience in violin students at elementary art schools when preparing for a public performance. The author of the article addresses the characteristics of stage fright, its manifestations and sources, describes the flow state and possibilities of inducing such state.
She expands the theoretical information by knowledge and findings obtained in interviews with two of her students. The article aims to show, using E.
Newsome's Flow Music Method, how students may contribute, during the violin playing practice and the stage performance in front of an audience itself, to inducing the flow state and at the same time reducing negative effects of the stage fright.